Cool Stuff Ride Home

By Cool Stuff Ride Home

Covering the most interesting and coolest stories that you may have missed around the world in about 15 minutes a day. Cool Stuff Ride Home looks at science, progress, life-hacks, memes, exciting art,... more

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October 30, 2020Fri. 10/30 - Is the Pandemic Causing Prohibition-esque Ripple Effects?
Why you’re seeing more young Black students working the polls this year. How the pandemic might parallel Prohibition's effect on the American brewing industry. NASA followed up a viral tweet with a literal link to their Soundcloud, and it’s definitely worth listening to, especially this weekend. And Play-Doh has just introduced a new line for adults. Yes, really.

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Why young Black students are stepping in as poll workers this election season (NBC News)
How a Beer Historian Is Documenting COVID-19's Impact on Brewing (Atlas Obscura)
NASA SoundCloud Playlist Features Sinister Sounds of Space (NASA)
Play-Doh for Adults May Be the Most 2020 Product Innovation Yet (Ad Week)
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17min
October 29, 2020Thu. 10/29 - Haunted Bathrooms & Lab-Grown Brains
Can lab-grown brains become conscious? And should we let them? Burger King’s latest creepy stunt to try to rile up McDonald’s. And why do we say trick-or-treat, and what is Mischief Night anyways?

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Can lab-grown brains become conscious? (Nature)
Burger King Halloween stunt makes Ronald McDonald appear in restrooms (Business Insider)
Wonder Fair's Virtual Haunted Bathroom (Wonder Fair)
Mischief Night and Halloween: A Brief History of the Term (TIME)
Why Do We Say 'Trick or Treat' on Halloween? (Mental Floss)
Halloween: The History of America's Darkest Holiday by David J. Skal
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17min
October 28, 2020Wed. 10/28 - 2020's Best Game Is a Cursed Real Estate Listing
A look back at one hundred years ago when women ruled a notorious wild west town. Some thoughts on the effects of technology on our ability to remember our thoughts in the long-term. And the internet is calling it the best game of 2020, but it’s actually just a virtual 3D tour of a house for sale. What’s going on?

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Remembering When Women Ruled a Wild West Town (Atlas Obscura)
Gaining, Losing, and Winning Back the Vote: The Story of Utah Women's Suffrage - Better Days Curriculum (Utah Women’s History)
Are we losing our ability to remember? (Scott Taylor)
This 3D home tour is the best accidental video game of 2020 (A/V Club)
The House on Blue Lick Road (Waxy)
3D Tour of 880 Blue Lick Road
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October 27, 2020Tue. 10/27 - Kazakhstan Is Very Nice, But Venus Is Not
Throwing cold water on that whole signs-of-life-on-Venus news. A new travel guide to haunted hotels, based on bad Tripadvisor reviews. A study looking into why we don’t click or comment on certain posts online. And Kazakhstan changes their stance on Borat.

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Links:
New analysis casts serious doubt on the claim of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus (Bad Astronomy)
12th order polynomial explanation (Bad Astronomy)
Ghost Stories of Tripadvisor is a dreadful directory of hotel hauntings (It’s Nice That)
3 Things Drive Our Social Media 'Non-Click' Decisions (Futurity)
Why don't we click on some social media posts? (UMich)
Kazakhstan stops resisting Borat, adopts "Very nice!" tourism slogan (A/V Club)
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17min
October 26, 2020Mon. 10/26 - Water on the Moon & Oreo’s Arctic Vault
NASA’s big announcement has been revealed: there is way more water on the moon than we thought. An update on the murder hornet situation. Oreo has built a vault in Norway to preserve a stash of Oreos in case that Election Day asteroid, which is absolutely not going to hit the Earth, hits the Earth. And mutant crayfish clones have taken over a Belgian cemetery just in time for Halloween.

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Links:
NASA's Big Moon News: There's Water All Over the Place (Gizmodo)
NASA’s SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon (NASA)
Water on the Moon could sustain a lunar base (BBC)
Washington Scientists Destroy First Murder Hornet Nest in US (Earther)
In Japan, the ‘Murder Hornet’ Is Both a Lethal Threat and a Tasty Treat (NY Times)
Oreo stashed its cookies in a doomsday vault in preparation for the 'Election Day asteroid' (CNET)
Hundreds of self-cloning crayfish invade Antwerp cemetery (Brussels Times)
An aquarium accident may have given this crayfish the DNA to take over the world (Science Mag)
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17min
October 23, 2020Fri. 10/23 - The Bat Who Went To Space
Do Venus Flytraps have a short-term memory? A new interactive database of every lifeform that’s ever gone into space from Earth. The Seattle bar that made a pandemic-safe pinball machine. And Burger King is getting in on the zero-waste game with reusable containers in select markets.

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Links:
The secret of how the Venus flytrap “remembers” when it captures prey (Ars Technica)
"The Astronaut Database" (Supercluster)
Bat Hung onto Shuttle During Liftoff (NASA)
Seattle arcade thinks on its feet, introduces touchless pinball (NBC King5)
Burger King is testing a new, reusable container for Whoppers (Fast Company)
Meet Loop, the new zero-waste platform for consumer products (Fast Company)
Is the McDonald's Ice Cream Machine Broken? (Kottke)
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16min
October 22, 2020Thu. 10/22 - The Rare Tree Needed for a COVID-19 Vaccine
What does root beer have to do with a potential COVID-19 vaccine? A deep dive on that connection. A peek into the world of people who grow giant vegetables. And the Iowa woman who had her cat successfully cloned.

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Links:
A COVID-19 Vaccine Could Rely on Rare Trees in Chile (The Atlantic)
COVID-19 tracker: Roche taps Atea for oral antiviral; AstraZeneca's US vaccine trial to resume 'imminently' (Fierce Pharma)
‘We’re like athletes’: the secret lives of giant-vegetable growers (The Guardian)
Backyard Giants: The Passionate, Heartbreaking, and Glorious Quest to Grow the Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Susan Warren
Squashed by Joan Bauer
Iowa Woman Has Her Dead Pet Cat Cloned (Oddee)
ViaGen Pets | America's Pet Cloning Experts

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19min
October 21, 2020Wed. 10/21 - Co-Working On A Ferris Wheel
Today is International Pronoun Day so here are some historical facts about pronouns. Scientists have discovered a previously unknown organ in the human body. And forget about WeWork, a Japanese amusement park has offered up their ferris wheel as a co-working space.

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Links:
A brief history of singular 'they' (Oxford English Dictionary)
He, she, or ... ? Gender-neutral pronouns reduce biases – study (The Guardian)
Gender-neutral pronouns: When 'they' doesn't identify as either male or female (Washington Post)
Kamala versus Daenerys (The.Ink)
International Pronouns Day (Pronouns.Org)
Scientists Just Discovered a Mysterious Organ Lurking in The Centre of The Human Head (Science Alert)
Doctors May Have Found Secretive New Organs in the Center of Your Head (NY Times)
Japanese theme park lets you co-work from the Ferris wheel (CNN)
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16min
October 20, 2020Tue. 10/20 - Tardigrade Sunscreen & Cursed Twinkies
Tardigrade sunscreen. Coming soon? How to enjoy a socially-distanced holiday season. Some promising methods for upcycling plastic into more valuable materials. And the curious case of the extremely moldy Twinkie.

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This tardigrade can glow to protect itself when exposed to UV rays (CNN)
How to Make Socially Distanced Holidays Actually Feel Special (Vice)
If recycling plastics isn’t making sense, remake the plastics (Ars Technica)
Scientists Are Fascinated By An 8-Year-Old, Moldy Twinkie (NPR)
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18min
October 19, 2020Mon. 10/19 - The Moon Is Getting a Nokia Cellular Network
The fourteen-year-old Texan who may have just made an important discovery for potential COVID-19 treatments. An update on the safety and new norms surrounding air travel. Nokia is building a mobile network on the moon. And the website that’s basically a more organized Chat Roulette but for trying to heal the US’s political divide.

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Links:
This 14-Year-Old's Discovery Could Lead to a Cure for COVID-19 (Vice)
3M Young Scientist Challenge winner is Anika Chebrolu, who won for a coronavirus discovery (CNN)
How Air Travel Has Changed During COVID-19 According to The Points Guy (LifeHacker)
What to Do If Your Airplane Seatmate Won't Wear a Mask (Traveler)
The risk of COVID-19 infection on flights is 'very low,' and 1 infected passenger would take 54 hours to spread the virus to others onboard, a US government study found (Business Insider)
Got any signal up here? Nokia to build mobile network on the moon (Reuters)
PartyLine - 🇺🇸 Live voice-chat with other Americans

‎Conversations with People Who Hate Me (Dylan Marron, Apple Podcasts)
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